Instrument #

Overview #

The RISTRETTO instrument will be composed of 2 main components:

• A spectrograph, with 7 spaxels,
• an XAO front end with a coronagraph.

To deliver its full performance the system should be installed on an 8m class telescope. The scientific bandwidth is 620-840 nm

The whole instrument is designed to enable the detection of the reflected light from Proxima b